BT has announced its new, four-year title sponsorship of the BT Paralympic World Cup. The BT Paralympic World Cup is the largest annual international multi-sport competition in elite disability sport, and takes place from 20-25 May 2009 in Manchester. BT Group Marketing and Brand Director Suzi Williams said,
Although women may have difficulties breaking through the glass ceilings of big business, they are beginning to take charge in the Public Sector. Within the recent months alone, the first female Minister of Saudi Arabia and the first female and openly lesbian Prime Minister of Iceland were appointed. In the case of Saudi Arabia, appointing […]
Anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the annual bonuses of more than 16,000 Sodexo managers is tied to meeting diversity objectives. For the executive team, 25 percent of their annual bonuses is tied to diversity performance â and is paid regardless of the companyâs financial performance. Rohini Anand, senior vice president and global chief […]
Pepsi Bottling has created one of the most diverse boards, in terms of gender and ethnicity, of any company in the Fortune 500 with four women, one of them Hispanic; one African-American man; and one Mexican man among its 10 members. Eric J. Foss, chairman and chief executive of the Pepsi Bottling Group, sat down […]
Between autumn 2007 and spring 2008, a series of national training seminars were financed by the European Commission and carried out in all EU Member States, Turkey, Norway and Iceland. 1100 participants from NGOs and nearly 300 participants from trade unions were trained in national non-discrimination seminars, raising awareness and understanding of national legislation and […]
This European Commission released guide explains the current issues of todayâs family and working policies and offers best practices and approaches to support work-life balance with European Structural Funds (ESF). These funds have already financed over 2,5 billion Euros for campaigns to reconcile work and family life and for the promotion of female employment.
McDonaldâs Europe has launched the most significant private sector initiative to promote European employee mobility with its McPassport. The McPassport, an official certification of the training and skills that employees have acquired while employed by McDonaldâs, is designed to support the movement of McDonaldâs restaurant employees throughout the European Union.
Microsoft Austria has been actively working towards their theme of âMore women in ITâ and has been building their numbers of female employees gradually over the past years. âFor the past year and a half, every third new employee at Microsoft Austria has been a woman,â stated Human Resources Manager Alexander Hahnefeld.
In lieu of the UNâs Native Language Day, UNESCO has released a new âAtlas of the Languages of the World.â This compilation not only provides information on some 2500 languages, out of the more than 6,000 most linguists say exist, but also classifies those in terms of the risk they face over the next century.
This month, the National Gender Machinery of South Africa launched a campaign aiming to create an equal representation of women in political and decision-making positions by 2014. Minister in the Presidency, Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, stated to the South African national assembly,
